Press Releases

MAY 2, 2022
press conference: LYME DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS FOCUS OF RENEWED FUNDING FOR U OF g LAB

The G. Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab will receive a three-year, $1.2-million grant from the G. Magnotta Foundation for Vector-Borne Diseases to continue studying the bacterial pathogen and the disease it causes. Read the announcement.

june 14, 2017
press conference: New G. Magnotta Lyme Disease Research lab to be established at
the univeristy of guelph

Rossana Magnotta announced a $1.4 million grant to the University of Guelph to establish the new G. Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab at the university. The landmark partnership paves the way for Canada's first research facility to improve Lyme disease testing and treatment. Read the press release.

April 11, 2017
press conference: improving the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S FRAMEWORK ON LYME DISEASE

Rossana Magnotta was joined by Dr. Liz Zubek and Dr. Melanie Wills at a press conference in Ottawa to respond to the government's draft framework it released last month on how to reduce Lyme disease-related health risks to Canadians. Unfortunately, the document is inadequate and has dramatically fallen short of the Lyme community's expectations. Rossana urged the Minister of Health to intervene and insist on patient experts being involved in the writing of the framework even if that means delaying the report to parliament. "This is the correct and ethical thing to do," she urged.